History optional : Strategy and Important Point

Strategy

History optional Strategy and Important Point. It is an important optional for UPSC aspirant. Because of the following reasons, this optional has been an evergreen optional for long time. History optional : Strategy and Important Point.

1. Static in Nature.
2. Once the optional prepared , it will be useful for a decade at least
3. Relevance in GS paper also.
4. The standard of the questions of History asked in GS are of same standard as the questions of optional. For GS purpose, So Everyone has to cover 80 % standard book. If anybody add 20% , they can cover one full optional
5. Because of questions asked from Map, it becomes high scoring paper
6. The study of world history is essential to understand basics of international relation

Read More Post : Improving Answer Writing Skills for UPSC Mains Exam

Some Key points to remember

• Don’t make notes of event only.
• Divide into many aspects. For example, Indus valley Civilization, divide it into origin, features, decline, social, economical, religious and political condition etc. This will help you in making the link to next part easier.
• Very basic questions are not being asked in IAS exam. So prepare smartly.
• Think of topics and subtopics and make the notes/points. For example, women condition in ancient India was bad, so prepare some points where the women ’ s condition was good and evaluate accordingly.
• Make a list of statements given by different writers/travelers/ sources. You can now compare the views
• The statements of modern history are, at time , hard to understand and elaborate.
• To solve this dilemma you should read only 2 books (Bipin Chandra and B.L Grover) and make a list of such interesting statements. These statements are questions. Try to solve them and give them to check to your senior/professor
• Give more focus on answer writing Make group of some aspirants and try to tackle history together
• Since History is static subject. So try to solve questions of last 30 years
• Visualize the events
• Use various images to remember art/culture of various places
• Practice for map daily for 1 hour